Software Engineer III - GBS IND

Job Description:

About Us

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

 Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview*

Enterprise Cloud Platforms Team:

Enterprise Cloud Platforms team in the CTO organization offers Private and Public Cloud platforms for Bank of America’s developers to drive faster time-to-market, innovation with private and public cloud capabilities, and reduce complexity with bult-in integrations. We believe in high quality engineering culture to engineer our platforms with customer and platform mindset, design for large enterprise scale and resilience, and accelerate market innovation into the technical platforms we deliver.

As part of this team, you will have a large impact on the evolution of next generation Cloud services for Bank of America and explore an extensive list of new technologies that will drive innovation across our company.

We are looking for a Containers Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Engineering Leader to deliver PaaS and Container orchestration platforms in Private and Public Clouds to accelerate developer productivity and accelerate market innovation into the platforms. This team will be responsible for highly available, secure, and scalable Kubernetes based container orchestration platforms across different infrastructure platforms.

Responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Ensures people development through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development. Develops a technology strategy and ensures technology solutions comply with applicable standards. This role advocates and advances modern, Agile solution delivery practices and evangelizes great design, engineering, and organizational practices. Accountable for team/program level resource and financial management; builds and maintains teams through talent acquisition. Sets maturity objectives and enables individuals/teams to with training & resources to achieve them. Sets and tracks quality and performance objectives. Facilitates performance and career development of individuals through performance reviews, coaching, and building individual development plans that are needed to develop competencies and skills. Understands individual and team maturity and performance through team/client feedback. Manages relationships with the business and technology leaders, and vendors for technical products. Accountable for solution delivery management as relevant to their teams e.g., prioritizing tech debt, compliance, and security items, and supporting audits. Accountable to ensure all relevant risk, financial, and compliance polices, and standards are met. Accountable for the application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews). Creates the technology strategy for their technical domain. Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with Product Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders. Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers. Leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organization. Manages a team.

Job Description*

• Participate in the production of overall product design documentation. Key contributor to the engineering of Kubernetes based Hybrid cloud container platform.
• Contribute on scalable PaaS (container orchestration platform) platform engineering, design decisions, standards, and operational practices
• Design, develop and be accountable for feature delivery.
• Apply enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality.
• Follow and promote best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance.
• Plan and implement the selection of new cloud services and tools to enable cloud roadmap
• Participate in the creation of blueprints and reference implementations of hybrid cloud container platform
• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns and have “security from the get-go” model into Cloud platforms
• Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders –engineering, operations, developers, and leadership
• Develop hybrid cloud container platform services provisioning automation with integrated capabilities of IAM, network, security policies as code, and observability
• Implement built-in resiliency, observability, and enable FinOps as a part of infrastructure automation to enable cloud PaaS services
• Develop CI/CD pipelines to build the container platform
• Collaborate with technical product management and operations, to deliver the engineering roadmap in Agile model
• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns into Cloud platforms
• Assist in translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
• Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

Responsibilities*

• Experience in delivering large scale PaaS platforms with focus on performance, scale, security, and reliability
• Experience with leading engineering teams in Cloud-native technologies
• Experience in containers and Kubernetes based container orchestration technologies
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security.
• Understanding of landing zones, cloud-native security, monitoring and logging tools, and Well-Architected Framework principals.
• Experience with CICD tools – Jenkins, pipelines, etc.
• Experience in native CSP orchestration stacks (e.g., Azure ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager)
• Experience in container-native technologies such as Kubernetes, container native virtualization, network, etc.
• Experience in cloud-native logging, monitoring and operations tools – Splunk, Prometheus, fluentD, etc.
• Experience in infra-automation tools and general programming languages – Ansible, Java, python, etc.
• Must be intermediate level in one or more of the following, with familiarity with the others:
  • Cloud IAM
  • Cloud network and security design
  • Cloud IaaS design, including image creation and management using tools such as Packer.
  • Cloud-native Kubernetes services (AKS, GKE, EKS) design and implementation
  • Red Hat Openshift public cloud design and implementation

• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, Salt
• Excellent understanding of the programming principles, design patterns and OO best practices
• Development experience in Python/ Java/ Golang. Experience building microservices and RESTful APIs is preferred.
• Experience in Agile development practices and test-driven development
• Demonstrated excellence in organizational and troubleshooting skills

Requirements*

Education*

• Minimum of a 4-year degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent experience

Experience Range*

Overall 8+ Years and minimum 3+ years Kubernetes based PaaS cloud platform engineering experience.

Foundational Skills*

Kubernetes services such as AKS/EKS/ GKE, Openshift, Ansible, CICD, Java/Python/Go, Shell/python scripting

Desired Skills*

Terraform, REST APIs/ Microservices development, ArgoCD, Tekton and K-native

Work Timings*

40hrs/week in a Global support Model with weekend support on a rotational basis.

Job Location*

Hyderabad/ Gurugram